zondag 12 augustus 2012

Before the formal start of IFLA 2012 in Helsinki the sessions of the Standard Committees take place. Our session was very well attended. Nearly all members were there and quite some ‘observers’. The agenda was published here earlier.

Evgeny Kuzmin (Chairman of IFAP Council) stressed the good relations of IFAP with the IL Section and memorized the communal activities, which culminated into the IFLA MIL recommendations and the Moscou Declaration. He expressed his wish to continue our work together.If you want to follow the conference klik here on IFLA Express.

The second
day of the conference started with an inspiring keynote by Carol Kuhlthau; ‘Facillitating Learning Through Guided
Inquiry’ . And was followed by Sessions and Workshops. Papers will be
published in the conference proceedings.

The local committee did a great job.

At the end
of the day quite some attendants went on to Helsinki for IFLA 2012.

donderdag 9 augustus 2012

On the
first full day of the satellite after the welcome address from the Vice Rector
there was the ‘Elizabeth Stone Memorial Lecture given by Prof Kirsti Lonka (University
of Helsinki) and 24 presentations ( parallel in 4 sessions), a poster
presentation session and 4 workshop …

maandag 6 augustus 2012

The USA's Project Information Literacy (PIL) is seeking further volunteer colleges and universities with calls to participate in forthcoming PIL research studies. In autumn they will begin "a year-long investigation of first-time freshmen in US colleges and universities" I think you have to be located in the USA. The PIL project does the actual research, only some time acting as liaison person is required.http://projectinfolit.org/volunteer/volsample.asp